http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/15424_comet.html
Russian astrologer seeks $310 million of moral damage compensation from
NASA
05/06/2005 20:00
The astrologer believes that NASA's plans ruin the personal memory of her
grandparents
NASA's Deep Impact space probe, which was launched in January of the
current year, is supposed to attack Tempel 1 comet on 4 July 2005. The project
became one of the most ambitious space activities of NASA.
According to the plan, the probe is expected to near the comet and fire a
270-kilo shell at it, in the direction of the comet's nucleus. If the process
is successful, the shell is to hit the comet at the speed of 37,000 km/h on
USA's Independence Day, 4 July 2005.
Specialists believe that a football stadium-sized crater is supposed to
be formed as a result of the shot. Scientists will be able to see the contents
of the comet's nucleus. Scientists will be observing the process with the help
of video cameras installed on board the Deep Impact probe, and also with the
help of US telescopes - Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer. The shell itself is also
outfitted with a video camera.
The structure of the comet nucleus will provide more information about
the formation of the Solar system. Scientists believe that comets were formed
about 4,6 billion years ago, when the Sun and planets of the Solar system were
being formed.
The impact is space is to occur at the distance of 132 kilometers far
from Earth. Scientists say that the "terrorist act in space" will not cause
much damage to the comet itself. The collision of the space probe with the
comet can be comparable with a flying bug that smashes into the windscreen of a
racing car.
In the meantime, Russian astrologer Marina Bai demands NASA's project to
bomb Tempel 1 comet should be canceled and banned. The astrologer believes that
the plan of the US space agency is an attempt against the natural life in
space, which might break the natural balance of the Universe. Marina Bai filed
a lawsuit against NASA seeking the protection of her moral and life values. The
Russian scientist says that the above-mentioned comet is rather valuable for
her as personal memory: the comet gave a start to the relationship of the
astrologer's grandparents. Marina Bai clarified that when her grandfather met
her grandmother, he showed her the comet in the sky, and it became the romantic
start of their long family life.
The Russian astrologer evaluates her moral damage in the sum of over 310
million USD. A Moscow court has already declined the astrologer's lawsuit on
account of immunity from the Russian jurisdiction. A higher instance court has
cancelled the decision, though, and sent the case for further consideration
with NASA's participation. Marina Bai's lawyer said that NASA has its office on
the Russian territory, in the premises of the US embassy in Moscow.
Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Dmitry Sudakov)
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